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Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari (;
Turkish:
Kaşgarlı Mahmud;
Uyghur:
Mehmud Qeshqeri), born in
1005, was an early
Turkic linguist of
Turkic languages from
Kashgar, then part of the
Kara-Khanid Khanate. He was a renowned scholar and
lexicographer of Turkic
dialects.
His father, Husayn, was the mayor of
Barsgan and related to the Karakhanid ruling dynasty. His mother was Bibi Rābiy'a al-Basrī. He studied Turkic dialects and wrote the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, the
Dīwān ul-Lughat al-Turk (Arabic:
Collection of Turkic words) in 1072. It was intended for use by the
Caliphs of
Baghdad, the new,
Arabic allies of the
Turks. Mahmud Kashgari's comprehensive dictionary contains specimens of old Turkic poetry in the typical form of
quatrains (
Persian/
rubāiyāt;
Turkish:
dörtlük), representing all the principal genres:
epic,
pastoral,
didactic,
lyric, and
elegiac. His book also included the first known map of the areas inhabited by
Turkic peoples.
Mahmud Kashgari died in
1102 at the age of 97 in Opal, small city southwest of Kashgar, and was buried there. There is now a mausoleum erected on his gravesite (opened on May 26,
2006). He is remembered as a prominent
Uyghur scholar.
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